Episode 1: Assimilation, Schooling, and Higher Education

Wósdéé Podcast

I spoke to Dr. Franklin Sage about his research regarding Higher Education and Indigenous student. We discuss the role of education has in colonization as an assimilation process. Western education instilled in indigenous people patriarchal tendencies and individualistic mindset. Education produced gender roles that shifted indigenous people away from the matrilineal & matriarchy foundations. We spoke about his experience, as well as mine, in college and beyond.